Lady Frankenstein
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lady Frankenstein |
| Original title | La figlia di Frankenstein |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mel Welles |
| script | Edward di Lorenzo |
| production |
Harry Cushing Humbert Case Jules Kenton |
| music | Alessandro Alessandroni |
| camera | Riccardo Pallottini |
| cut | Cleofe Conversi |
| occupation | |
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Lady Frankenstein (Original title: La figlia di Frankenstein ) is an Italian exploitation film from 1971, which is based on motifs from the Frankenstein novel by Mary Shelley . Directing the at that time in Germany indexed and rotated in Italy with international participation low budget - Horror led Mel Welles , who focused on the fictional story of Frankenstein's daughter. In addition to extensive depictions of violence and a few nude scenes, the feminist-inspired film is particularly characterized by the fact that it depicts a self-confident young woman who asserts herself in a male domain.
In 2007, the genre film was removed from the list of media harmful to minors, which was preceded by a reassessment by the Federal Testing Office for media harmful to minors, and was broadcast on 4 August in a television premiere on the 3sat channel.
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The renowned scientist Baron von Frankenstein experiments together with his assistant, Dr. Charles Marshall, for over 20 years he has been creating artificial beings, which he has assembled from body parts that have been illegally exhumed . He gets his "experimental material" from three grave robbers around the vulgar lynch, who help him to create a "perfect creature". The secret work, which according to the public is concerned with the transplantation of animal organs, is already nearing completion, but still requires a human heart and the brain of a recently deceased test person .
After successfully completing her doctorate as a specialist in surgery , the baron's young daughter, Lady Tania Frankenstein, returns to the family castle at home to assist her father in his work. On arrival, she is welcomed by the attractive but mentally retarded stable boy Thomas. The self-confident, highly motivated Tania is completely surprised by the advances made by her father in the field of transplantation , but against her will she is not called into the surgical team for the upcoming, crucial brain and heart transplant. Your father, who together with Dr. Marshall performs the operation, but informs them of the status of the operation anyway. Despite the warning of his assistant, who discovered damage to the hypothalamus of the executed criminal "donor", the scientists succeed in the said transplant and the subsequent reanimation of the creature.
As a result of the irreparable damage to the main nerve center, the assembled extremely powerful creature kills the baron, walks out of the castle unnoticed and later murders other people. Charles and the summoned Tania, who want to save Frankenstein's reputation, lie to the investigating police captain Harris by hiding the existence of the creature and blaming an imaginary burglar for the murder. The population of the area is terrified by the number of deaths caused by the strange monster. Captain Harris then intensified his investigation.
Worried Tania tries meanwhile. to preserve the life's work of her father and plans to stop the monster with the help of another monster. For the implementation of her plan, however, she needs the cooperation of the aging Dr. Marshall, who is visibly drawn to the young and attractive woman. Tania reacts to his romantic approach, but gives him to understand that she prefers the young, handsome body of the stable boy over the aging body of the medic. Following her own interests, she tries to avenge the death of her father, she offers the astonished, loving scientist a workable "solution": a transplant of his wonderful brain into the head of the retarded Thomas Stack.
The unequal couple will marry in the next few days. At the same time, the monster murders other people, including Lynch and two grave robbers involved. In order to put her plan into practice and to quickly stop the apparently indiscriminate murderous creature, Tania decides to seduce the unsuspecting Thomas in order to kill him with the help of her older husband. During intercourse, the enamored and jealous Charles suffocates the chosen victim, Thomas Stack, with a pillow. In the following operation, Tania finally succeeds in removing the brain from Dr. To transplant Marshalls into Thomas's body and reanimate this new creature.
Police chief Harris, who is investigating the gruesome murders in the area, has now reconstructed a connection between the death of the grave robbers, the monster and the strange events at Schloss Frankenstein, but initially does not intervene due to a lack of evidence. He suspects the beast to be around Tania. He receives support from Julia Stack, the sister of the missing Thomas, who blames Mrs. Marshall for the disappearance of her feeble-minded brother. Events soon overturned. The monster wanders to the family castle of the Frankensteins, where it is jointly defeated by Charles (in the body of Thomas) and Tania. The monster is followed by local villagers who, for their part, want to get hold of the monster with torches and pitchforks, but ultimately only set the venerable building on fire.
At the end of the film there is sexual passion between Tania and Thomas in the burning castle, as a result of which Tania is strangled while having sex with her creature. The lovers and the murder of Harris and Julia are observed.
Reviews
“Frankenstein's daughter avenges the death of her father, who fell victim to an artificial human being created by him. Formally insignificant, sometimes ridiculous horror product. "
“A naive horror story about the long-serving Frankenstein motif, but enriched by sexual motifs that drive the enterprising daughter. (...) explosive mixture: of Gothic horror tale (...) and erotic fantasies in the style of the Italian Sado comics, in short: for some pure trash, for others an underrated gem of the entertainment cinema. "
Web links
- Lady Frankenstein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lady Frankenstein in the online film database
- Comparison of the cut versions German version - US version by Lady Frankenstein at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. http://www.3sat.de/3sat.php?http://www.3sat.de/ard/kinomagazin/111242/index.html - accessed on September 29, 2007
- ↑ Lady Frankenstein. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. http://www.wdr.de/tv/kinozeit/070928.phtml